Do Not Mess With Fish 109,

and you thought fish were fun! now this is the oldest example of keeping a job in the family that I know, since 1470 when the first written record of traditional eel catching in Mr Carter's family was made - and other ancestors may have practised the trade even earlier, Peter Carter 45, is now the only eel catcher in the country still using the traditional willow eel traps method, as others use nets, but the tradition may be lost for good after his only child, 13-year-old Rhianna, made it clear she has no intention of taking up the trade, Mr Carter, who works in the Cambridgeshire Fens, said: 'I could be the last one, it could happen, but I hope not because my family have been doing it for so long now, the younger generations don't want to watch and learn how to do this any more, they want to sit indoors playing on computers,

a shot taken in the 1950s of Elijah Wells, Peter's great uncle, with his wife (name not known) holding the traditional willow eel traps that Peter still uses, so for twenty generations his ancestors have learned the technique of crafting the eco-friendly traps and laying them out at night, before returning in the morning to collect the catch, his only child, 13-year-old Rhianna, has decided not to follow in her fathers footsteps, so I guess this will be the end of the family business, you may remember my last trip to the UK when I went to Greenwich, there was an eel & pie shop there many years ago, eels were a cheap food for East enders but that shop too has disappeared.